Privilege amid pandemic
Something to write home about
This is my plea to people across the world, and especially those in India who have the privilege to practice social distancing: Do your part.
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And the world went airborne
Something to write home about
Every day is a ping-pong game with my family back in India about whether or not I should decide to hop on a 22-hour direct flight back home because who knows if it is safe to travel?
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When women lead
Something to write home about
I am the youngest member of my family of four. For years, I wanted to do exactly what my sister did — wear her clothes, listen to her music, read her books.
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Dissent through dance
Something to write home about
“I can’t; I have practice” is my most common response every spring semester.
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The privilege to protest
Something to write home about
I want to urge student activists in Berkeley and across the U.S. to make an active, informed effort to participate in creating change.
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Tall tales of India’s press
Something to write home about
It would be too much to ask that certain events in India not infuriate me — but all I want is to get live, accurate and relevant updates with the same frequency and urgency as I get them in India.
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YBN Cordae turns his audience members into rappers at Cornerstone
YBN Cordae makes his listeners his friends before making them his audience, and that’s what made this performance particularly special.
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It isn’t ‘a little late’ for Lilly Singh to reclaim her position as a comedian
The reputation Lilly Singh has built for herself is as someone shattering all conventions of the media industry — as a performer of color that broke an internet that was primarily white.
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Anna Mwalagho’s one-woman show about being Black in the US brings power to comedy
Anna Mwalagho used the classic comedic device of repetition to hook this same sentence into multiple jokes in her one-woman show.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Pain and Glory’ is tragic, beautiful, meta-movie
“Pain and Glory” transcends genres and transcends topics. It brings to light just how diverse a director Almodóvar is.
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